Press Release
Motilal Oswal Alternatives, ChryCapital and Amicus Capital were awarded as among the top Private Equity investors in India during 2025 as part of Venture Intelligence APEX‘26 Private Equity & Venture Capital awards event in Mumbai.
The Venture Intelligence “Awards for Private Equity Excellence” (APEX) is dedicated to celebrating the best that the Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital industry has to offer. The APEX Awardees are selected based on both Self Nomination by the participating PE-VC firms and “crowd sourced” voting from the Limited Partner, PE-VC and advisory communities. (The main criteria are Return Track Record, New Fund Raises & Follow-on Funding Rounds for Portfolio Companies)
PE Investor of the Year
Motilal Oswal Alternatives (MO Alts) received the Private Equity Investor of the Year 2025 Award on the back of 5 exits including packaged flour maker Ganesh Consumer (via pre-IPO deals and its IPO) and Secondary Sales in IPO bound medical devices company Molbio Diagnostics and NBFC IKF. MO Alts also made a Complete Exit from publicly listed AU Small Finance Bank during 2025 and a part sale in listed auto components company Happy Forgings. In addition, MO Alts made a $900 million second close of India Business Excellence Fund-V from IFC, offshore and domestic institutional investors, domestic public sector banks, life insurance companies, high networth individuals, etc. during the year.
Rohit Mantri, Managing Director and Co-Head of Private Equity, Motilal Oswal Alternates (Right) receives the PE Investor of the Year 2025 Award from Gana SK, Advisor, Venture Intelligence
“Motilal Oswal Alternates is humbled to be presented with the PE Investor of the Year award at the APEX ’26 PE-VC awards. This award comes at a very special moment for us as we celebrate our two decades of Alternates thinking and have recently also announced the final close of our fifth PE fund at Rs. 8,500 Cr,” said Rohit Mantri, Managing Director and Co-Head of Private Equity at MO Alts. “In this journey we have partnered with visionary promoters who have dreams of not only conquering domestic markets but have also set their targets on establishing a significant global presence. We thank these promoters for partnering with us, our investors for the faith they have shown and the entire ecosystem of advisors to have supported us through this journey,” he added.
PE Fund Raise of the Year
ChrysCapital received the PE Fund Raise of the Year 2025 Award on the back of closing a record USD 2.2 Billion Fund X – the largest fund raised by a home grown private equity firm.
Rajiv Batra, Director, ChrysCapital Advisors (Right) receives the PE Fund Raise of the Year 2025 Award from Gana SK, Advisor, Venture Intelligence
“We would like to express our gratitude to Venture Intelligence and the jury for this award. Raising 10 funds, and a fund of this size, is not only a tremendous honour, but also a great responsibility. The core of ChrysCapital’s DNA has always been managing investor capital in a thoughtful, ethical, and responsible manner – these principles have guided us for the past 26 years, and will continue to be our North Star in investing Fund 10 as well,” said Saurabh Chatterjee, Managing Director at ChrysCapital.
Growth Capital Investor of the Year
Amicus Capital received the Growth Capital Investor of the Year 2025 Award on the back of 3 exits generating MOICs between 4.41x and 2.24x including from specialty manufacturing company Aequs; NBFC Berar Finance and home appliances maker Wonderchef.
Abhijeeth Naik, Director, Finance and Administration, Amicus Capital (Right) receives the Growth Capital Investor of the Year 2025 Award from Farzana Wadia, Head, Brand Capital
“Amicus Capital is honoured to receive this award – it belongs to our investors and portfolio companies for their support and partnership, and is a testament to our unwavering commitment to the mid-market private equity space,” said Mahesh Parasuraman, Co-Founder & Partner, Amicus Capital.
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